The year 2020 has caused many white people to realize we live in a racist system. The Green New Deal is about systemic change for all, and deconstructing racism must be front and central in this agenda.
Rahm Emanuel
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After Rahm's Destruction, Can Chicago Create a Cooperative Economy?
Chicago mayoral candidate Amara Enyia promises to not only facilitate cooperative economics but also to begin the process of creating a public bank for the city “on day one” of her administration.
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Turning Pennies Into Billion$: The Tiny Tax that Wall Street Fears
The financial transaction tax would limit the large-scale trades that economists say are now occurring far too quickly and creating the volatility that's again on display with the recent market plunge.
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Chicago's Mayor 1% Funnelled Teacher Pensions Into His Own Donors' Hedge Funds
A report that Rahm Emanuel’s administration invested money from the city teachers’ union in private equity funds run by some of the mayor’s biggest campaign donors is adding fuel to the charges that he neglects all but his wealthy backers.
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Why A Loss for Chicago’s Mayor 1% Could Be the Win Progressives Have Been Waiting For
Rahm Emanuel’s cascade of calamities points to larger problems within a Democratic party being tugged by neoliberals of the Clinton/Obama school and forces that oppose the party's long rightward drift.
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The Road to Serfdom: American Feudalism Comes To Detroit
If the financiers who fueled the city's fiscal crisis get their way, Detroit citizens will no longer own any public goods but will be like serfs – subservient to a class of unaccountable corporate lords and their cronies in government.
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Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel Cuts Schools, Pensions to Subsidize Corporate Friends
Government documents reveal the city has $1.7 billion in special accounts used to finance corporate subsidies – though the mayor claimed "budget constraints" forced mass school closures and pension cuts.
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Ending the Chicago Tribune’s Propaganda War Against Public Dissent
The NATO 3’s ‘crime’ — assembling four primitive Molotov cocktails on the eve of a protest — was wholly initiated, incited and put into motion by two undercover cops.
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Let's Get This Straight: AIG Execs Got Bailout Bonuses But Pensioners Get Cuts
In contrast to top AIG executives who helped bankrupt their company and sink the economy, no one has accused city workers in Chicago or Detroit of doing anything wrong. They did their jobs — so why are they the ones facing pension cuts?
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Radically American: Theodore Dreiser and His Call to Fix Democracy
The American novelist Theodore Dreiser recognized that “only the mass can get America out of the mess,” something that was true in 1941 and arguably even truer today in 2013.
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Obama Picks Billionaire Tax Evader to Lead Commerce Department
Hyatt heiress Penny Pritzker, Obama's choice for Commerce Secretary, avoids paying taxes through offshore accounts and formerly ran a bank that pioneered predatory high-interest subprime loans.
